* Brian Gonzales
> 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box.
Two wild guesses:
(a) Gnome is using sudo. In this case, it is your own password that
should be typed, and you should need the proper entries in
/etc/sudo.conf.
(b) There is a character encoding
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:48:26 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:25:28AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> > Perhaps you should reread my post.
>
> Learn to quote and maybe I could.
> http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:25:28AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> Perhaps you should reread my post.
Learn to quote and maybe I could.
http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Either way you cut it
Perhaps you should reread my post.
> Gnome is doing the right thing. Don't log in as root. Especially
> don't log in as root in X, KDE or Gnome. Open a terminal emulator and
> use su -m to get root in X. This is safer.
>
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Thus spake Paul Johnson:
> > 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box.
> Gnome is doing the right thing. Don't log in as root. Especially
> don't log in as root in X, KDE or Gnome. Open a terminal emulator and
> use su -m to get root in X. This is safer.
It doesn
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> 1. If I 'su' at a command line, my root password works fine.
> 2. If I'm using KDE, I click on a Command Center icon, it prompts for a
> root password, it works fine.
> 3. If I'm in Gnom
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